How to Make a Gingerbread Garland
Make some Christmas decorations that are as good enough to eat, as they are to look at. I can't resist these adorable little gingerbread men all strung up together as a gingerbread garland – use them to decorate your tree or kitchen, and be the envy of all your (hungry) friends!
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How to make
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40 grams soft butter
40 grams light brown sugar
One egg yolk
Two tablespoons of golden syrup
100 gramsplain flour
One teaspoon ground ginger
Drinking Straw
Cream together the butter and sugar with a wooden spoon until pale and creamy.
Bring the dough together into a ball with your hands and wrap in clingfilm.
Chill the dough in the fridge for half an hour.
Roll out your gingerbread dough to the thickness of a pound coin and cut out your shapes.
Lay the shapes on parchment lined baking trays and put in the fridge to chill for thirty minutes. Use a drinking straw to remove two holes for the ribbon to thread through.
Bake the gingerbread at 170 Celcius for 10 to 15 minutes or until the edges start to brown.
Top Tip! If you find that the holes have started to close up a little when the biscuits have been cooking, use a wooden skewer to jiggle them open again as soon as you remove the trays from the oven and whilst the biscuits are still hot and malleable.
Transfer the biscuits to a cooling rack to go completely cold before decorating.
Mix up three tablespoons of royal icing sugar with a little cooled, boiled water to create a stiff but pipe-able consistency. Use a medium writer nozzle attached to a piping bag to pipe the details onto your biscuits.
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